K-12 Education

K-12

Our K-12 experts bring education leaders practical solutions to help them provide exceptional educational opportunities for students despite tight budgets.

We serve more than 200 educational institutions, including K-12 districts, intermediate school districts, private schools, and public school academies. With knowledge gained over six decades of auditing and assisting schools, our team of K-12 specialists can help your district prepare for school accounting and auditing changes, and we work with you and your school board to anticipate challenges, manage risk, and streamline operations. We help identify new ways to leverage technology, protect your district from cybersecurity threats, improve operations, contain costs, and address aging facilities without overburdening already-constrained budgets. We perform more than 600 single audits annually, serving school districts, governments, higher education, not-for-profit, and healthcare throughout the nation. The annual expenditures for government programs audited range from $750,000 to $1 billion. 

Our team of more than 150 education experts includes CPAs, technology professionals, management consultants, forensic accountants, and facilities/construction advisors who have dedicated their careers to serving education clients. We understand the challenges you face. As trusted advisors to hundreds of K-12 school districts, we take our commitment to the education community seriously, continuously monitoring activity at the federal, state, and local levels. We stay on top of the changes and trends that impact your schools and share our analysis and insights to help you adapt.

Donna Eurek
MIS Executive Director, Prosper ISD

Our district has experienced exponential growth over the past decade. As a result, our ERP solution no longer met our needs, and we knew that replacing our legacy technology would be a big project.

Plante Moran helped us find a scalable solution to support our current and future needs. They took the time to fully understand our requirements so that we could clearly envision our desired future state. In addition to their K-12 experience and knowledge of the marketplace — which were invaluable — they brought their project management acumen to keep us on track, meet all milestones, and anticipate potential stumbling blocks. They managed vendor relationships and advocated for our interests to ensure a successful outcome, so that we could extract the most value from our new system.

We appreciated the team’s expertise, professionalism, and partnership and highly recommend Plante Moran.

Jonathan Levesque
Chief Financial Officer, Littleton Public Schools

We switched to Plante Moran for our 2023 audit, and I am very happy with our first year experience. My biggest takeaways are the team's professionalism and how well they know the K12 education industry as a whole.

When switching auditors, it can be very difficult to get new folks up to speed, but there was really no down time with PM because they just knew so much about our industry. Their K12 staffing resources are impressive as well; we had 5-7 staff assigned to complete our audit, which is more than we've seen previously. They got right to work, and their personalities were a great match with my team. As a result, we met all our timeline goals and presented the audit results to the Board of Education without any hiccups.

When I speak with other districts around the state, I'm proud to say we use Plante Moran. I really do believe they come with great breadth and depth of K12 knowledge, and I'm excited to work with the team going forward. I highly recommend them.

Matt Smith
Executive Director of Technology, St. Charles Community Unit School District 303

St. Charles CUSD 303 partnered with Plante Moran to support two major, interconnected initiatives: a comprehensive review of our student data processes and the selection of a new student information system (SIS).

They conducted current state mapping across all major departments and helped us clearly understand how data was being entered, shared, and reported across the district. Their work surfaced long-standing inefficiencies and inconsistencies that had become barriers to clean data and reliable reporting. At the same time, they helped guide us through the SIS evaluation and selection process. Their experience with system transitions in K–12 settings was evident in the way they structured vendor reviews, clarified technical and functional priorities, and ensured we were well-positioned to move forward confidently. Their team was organized, responsive, and easy to work with throughout.

One of the most valuable parts of this engagement was how it allowed our leadership team to focus on their day-to-day responsibilities while knowing this critical work was in capable hands. The end result was a clear roadmap for modernization, grounded in our actual practices and needs — not a generic template. I highly recommend Plante Moran to any district looking for thoughtful, practical support around SIS planning, data governance, or process improvement. They helped us get our arms around a complex challenge and left us in a much stronger position to move forward.

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